An English Waste Strategy has been suggested ahead of MPs meeting today to grill stakeholders on the Treasury’s impact on sustainability, and waste targets in particular.

The Wood Recyclers Association is urging the Environment Agency to reconsider elements of its revised fire protection plan guidance, which it says does not put enough emphasis on preventative measures.

Kerry McCarthy has quit as Shadow Environment Secretary, stating that weak party leadership has put critical issues like the UK’s part in the Circular Economy Package at risk.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including Mick George’s contract with Cambridge University and WRL Glass Media’s increasing exports.

Figures from around the waste and resource sindustry have had their say on the impacts of Brexit and what must now be done to take the industry forward.

Oldham Council is likely to follow several of its neighbouring authorities in implementing three-weekly residual waste collections to reduce the impacts of rapidly rising waste disposal costs in Greater Manchester.

Two Northern Irish AD plants have received government-backed funds for pioneering work using poultry litter.

The European Commission is to take Slovakia to the EU Court of Justice over failures to act over an illegal landfill.

The EU’s Committee of Regions has called for the EU to adopt a common food waste reduction target to meet the economic, environmental and social challenges caused by the waste.

A round-up of news from the waste and resources sector, including a new contract for Casepak, Huhtamaki investment and Bristol’s Big Green Week.